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Seriously, why aren't most people using adblock these days (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Majority of society:

"I don't see a problem"
"I don't care, it's not like my data is that valuable"
"But I actually like these targeted ads! I find so much good stuff this way!"

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

every time I hear the 3rd one I lose a little bit more faith in humanity

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's hard to comprehend their mindset

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I can give you another one from my wife:

"I need to watch ads to get rewards or get lives for [whatever game she's playing on her phone]."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be fair targeted ads based on what I like I don't find as a problem as long as they are not intrusive and very in your face! But due to how bad most ads are I don't see even those as I always have adblock on!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Your the problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I enjoy manipulating the advertising targeting algorithm to give me advertisements for industrial machinery, cloud computing, surveys, targeted advertisements, and other things I am not remotely in the market for.